Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time...
Greeks, especially those that are historically Black in membership, were founded on the basis of such community service and leadership. Fraternities and sororities are not self-serving; their purpose is to serve others. Often this purpose is accomplished though scholarships, philanthropic foundations and volunteer work.
A volunteer emerges after 131 days alone in a New Mexico cave and sheds new light on the innate biological rhythms that mark everything from blood pressure to mood.
STUDENTS from other universities of no small renown can simply volunteer to write for the paper, to take pictures for the yearbook, to give tours of the campus. But here, everything is a comp. What does "comp" mean, one may quite reasonably ask. "Competition?" No, heaven forbid, not "competition," the...
At Harvard, students tout tolerance and equity and awareness and diversity and other high-minded tenets of liberalism. But when it comes to their own lives, how many volunteer their time, how many make friends outside of their peer group, how many march for or otherwise act on their principles...